I’m Mixed… Of Course…
This resonated so hard with me
Hello There
Interrupt this blog for a Selfie Hello!
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Artist Spotlight: Using Shopping Carts to Explore Equity & Sustainability
My was recently featured by Artwork Archive on their blog. Have a look.
Experiments
I’ve been experimenting with self portrait monoprints. I’m not sure, if I like these or not.
What do you think?
Homeschool Residency Artwork
When the pandemic delayed my artist residency with NOW Friends, Nairobi Kenya, I took measures into my own hands and spend hours scouring the internet looking at images and video of beading, fabric and african art.
This is the result of my self styled homeschooled virtual artist residency.
Cider Six Packs and various single use bottle caps strung and knotted with blue and white polyurethane rope.
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Bottle Cap Pearls
Close Up Bottle Cap Pearls Full view
Inspired by my home school virtual artist residency with NOW Friends in Nairobi Kenya.
See this work at Art Fair 14C and Untitled Art Fair during Miami Art Week.
Take A Virtual Tour of Wonder Women Exhibition
Take A Virtual Tour of Bridge Arts’s Wonder Women Exhibition
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World Collage Day is 5/11
Join me for World Collage Day on Saturday, May 11, to honor this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like when people come together as a community.
SAVE THE DATE: 5/11 @ 1-5pm
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery 315 3rd Street, Jersey City NJ
Bring paper, magazines, found materials and your preferred substrate. I have paint, scissors and various glues…
$5 suggested donation to cover material costs.
Women of Wonder: Artist Talk March 12
Join me at One River this Tuesday March 12th @ 6:30pm for a talk about my Women of Wonder series, a pure celebration of expression, music, femininity, and belief in oneself. A confirmation of life repeated as a cannon of ‘I am who I am.’
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 from 6:30-7:30pm
LOCATION: One River; 292 Millburn Ave, Millburn, NJ 07041
We often travel to the corners of the planet looking for safe places to BE. When what is actually necessary is a declaration: “We are our own selves!†There is a place for all of our being; the sexy, the demure, the loud and the reticent.
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On our own terms of being in our own skin when and how we need to be…
Ella, Eartha, Grace, Diahann, Billie, and Nina (YES! Nina) taught us and made way for the Cardi’s, Beyonce’s and Nikki’s of this world. We all fit and there is plenty of room for us. When we make room for ourselves.
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